Year
2020
Country
Qatar
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English
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| The globalized system of production and consumption has successfully created a highly unsustainable lifestyle for the global elite. Despite the red flags raised by environmentalists since many decades, the systems have not been able to adapt to prevent climate crisis. This paper attempts to explore the root cause behind this inability while using Hollingsworth framework of institutional analysis. In this paper the Hollingsworth framework allowed peeling off the layers of the system to reach its axiomatic foundations in at least 7 steps. The path taken to discover the root cause is then reversed by creating an alternative set of axioms where environmental sustainability is a prime ingredient. The alternative axioms which are inspired by the core message of Islam are then used to construct a substitute system of production and consumption. The paper argues that reconstructing our society on the template provided by Islamic – environmentally friendly – principles and paradigm is fundamentally necessary to prevent worsening of climate crisis, or perhaps even prevent it altogether depending on how quickly the Islamic alternative is adopted and how many people accepts its adoption. |
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